Testimonial 1
I found myself in the presence of a person who, in my opinion, was the greatest musician I had met in my life. […] Music was his language: through his music, I received a teaching. Then he told me the same thing my father had: all religions are equal, and we should adhere to one... [more]

Testimonial 2
I first met Ostad on an autumn day in 1963 (I am French and had been living in Tehran for 5 years). It is only during the spring of 1964 that I actually became his student. At first, gatherings didn’t take place at fixed dates or at regular intervals and they were attended to only by a few people; gradually the informal gatherings which took place once and then twice a week were turned into regular formal meetings... [more]

Testimonial 3
By the late fifties, looking for spiritual salvation while feeling abnormally allergic to the antics of the old biblical God, I found myself dabbling in some sort of private mythology which, in the end, brought me no real spiritual satisfaction. I felt that no matter how high my mind made me believe I was flying, I couldn't escape the pentagonal confines of my senses and the inexorable logic of those very senses told me that what I was really after lay outside the sky-high walls of that finite pentagon... [more]